Podilymbus podiceps . 
East Lexington, Mass. Nesting of Pied-billed Grebe. 
1399. They were evidently the work of the Grebes but whether built 
May G. to draw attention away from the real nest or merely struc- 
(3), tures which had been abandoned because the sites proved for 
some reason unsatisfactory I was unable to determine. The 
eggs in this last nest were fresh for they sank when placed 
in the ’water, but the set of eight which I took were incubated 
to judge by the way they behaved when subjected to the test 
just mentioned. 
he did not catch sight of a single Grebe the whole forenoon 
but they were very noisy at times. Almost invariably after 
we had left a nest the birds set up a loud eatery near it in 
tones, as it seemed to me, of triumph over our supposed in¬ 
ability to discover it. 
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